The Oxford Murders was my movie number 10. The Oxford Murders stars Elijah Wood as a foreign student going to college for math I assume. It didn't really say. His idol is a logic professor and he really wants to get him to sponsor his thesis paper for when he graduates or whatever. That's not really important. He goes to a lecture this guy is holding and tries to get his attention by offering a differing point of view and gets shut down and rejected. So Elijah storms home and packs up all his books and is going to go fly home when he sees this professor walking up to the house. They find the body of the lady who owns the house he is staying at and the professor remembers that he got a weird note just before going over there and this sets off an investigation on who the murderer is and why he is doing what he's doing and what's going on with the symbols! Run on sentence! It all kind of reminded me of movies like The Davinci Code or National Treasure. They talk about all these math questions and theories so you feel smarter after watching it, which I can't complain about. Even if it's just BARELY touching on such things, it's interesting at least. It's fortunate that the film has that going for it, because at least two thirds of the movie are very clumsily directed and at times there's almost a disconnect between scenes. It's kind of hard to really put my finger on it but if you see it you'll probably notice something along those lines. Or I'm crazy. It wasn't really a bad movie and not really a great movie. I do think it could have been considerably better but this is what we get. There's plenty to choose from if you're looking for an intellectual thriller and this probably shouldn't be your first choice.
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